The explosion killed a journalist, injured ten people and damaged the building enough to force it to move.

It also occurred while the UN Secretary General was making his first visit to kyiv.

"If this is a high-precision attack, it's really cynical. It's inhumane," the 22-year-old told AFP on Friday, after he and his girlfriend removed from the building the things they brought there two weeks ago.

As he speaks, machines clear the rubble and rescue teams clean broken glass and inspect the building, whose facade was destroyed on three levels by the strike.

Rescuers also removed from the building, on a stretcher, a body wrapped in a bag and taken to the morgue: the strike surprised Vera Ghyrytch, journalist for Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, confirmed the radio, financed by the UNITED STATES.

“We have lost our beloved colleague, particularly appreciated for her professionalism and dedication to her mission,” said James Fly, president of RFE/RL, in a press release.

Rescuers transport the body of a victim the day after a Russian strike on kyiv, April 29, 2022 in Ukraine Sergei SUPINSKY AFP

Since the start of the war, Russia has been accused of deliberately hitting residential areas, even though Moscow claims to do everything to spare civilians.

"The Russians are not afraid of anything"

The road that crosses the district affected on Thursday is bordered on one side by apartment buildings, on the other by the site of the Artem company which was apparently the target of Moscow.

Russia said it targeted the workshops of this space company.

According to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry news site armyinform.com.ua, Artem is one of the enterprises of the Ukrainian state military-industrial complex UkrOboronProm and manufactures missiles.

A building destroyed by a Russian strike in kyiv, April 29, 2022 in Ukraine Sergei SUPINSKY AFP

Asked, UkrOboronProm did not immediately confirm this information.

AFP was able to see that some of the factory buildings were in ruins and blackened by the flames.

The blast also shattered windows and cracked walls hundreds of meters away, seriously damaging a nearby public clinic.

"I believe that Russians are not afraid of anything, not even of the judgment of the rest of the world," Anna Gromovych, deputy director of the clinic, told AFP.

Inside, broken doors and sections of ceiling mingle with children's toys in the waiting room.

Thursday's strike, which occurred less than an hour after the end of a press conference given by Antonio Guterres a few kilometers away, also ended a relatively calm period for the Ukrainian capital and its region, which suffered more strikes since April 17.

Since Russian troops withdrew from the outskirts of the capital on March 31, the city has resumed a semblance of normal life - despite the persistence of roadblocks, the wail of air-raid sirens, or gasoline shortages.

Thursday's strike came as a reminder that the war is still there.

"We had already had a strike in our area, so we weren't expecting more. We said to ourselves, 'You don't bathe in the same water twice,'" said Natalia Karpenko, 55, owner of a recruitment, who lives near the site of the strike.

The nearby Shevchenkivsky district had already suffered a strike on March 23, which injured four people.

Residents carry personal effects after leaving their building destroyed by a Russian strike, April 29, 2022 in kyiv, Ukraine Sergei SUPINSKY AFP

But despite the threat, she has no intention of leaving Ukraine, as more than 5.4 million Ukrainians have already done since the Russian invasion began on February 24.

"We planted flowers near our house yesterday. War is war," she shrugs.

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